Continued from Manton Bay – May 2020
The history of the Manton Bay nest, breeding stats and links to previous threads can be found here
The season so far: The resident pair both returned on 16 March - Blue 33(11) at 07:12 and Maya at 13:16. For the second consecutive year, Maya laid four eggs – the first on 29 March followed by another three first seen on 4, 6 and 9 April. Maya and Blue 33(11) faithfully incubated the four eggs and on day 38, the first chick hatched 6 May c13:20 followed by Chick #2 on 8 May c06:10, Chick #3 on 10 May c14:45, and Chick #4 on 13 May c20:45.
All four chicks have thrived under the protection of Maya and Blue 33(11) who has once again proved to be a fantastic provider for his family.
In two/three week’s time, the chicks will be ringed and we’ll learn a bit more about them.
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catch up:
08:55 Maya and the chicks waiting on 33 bringing them a fish
09:21 FISH -
09:22 Maya starts to feed the chicks
I had just put my dog's lead on when 33 arrived so I had to go out LOL
10:25 Returned to see my screen frozen but a nice capture of the feed
10:27 Refreshed to see the feed was over and the chicks all settled down
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Thanks Starling :) and Mary for your kind remarks too :-) Actually it is very hard to do and I will be glad when they are ringed lol And talking of ringing - Last year the chicks were ringed when the oldest chick was 41 days old. So not long!
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11:25 33 arrives and finds the fish :-D
stays a moment. Always nice to see 33 with the chicks :-)
and flies off with it
12:33 33 returns with the fish with Maya closely behind him
12:34 Maya starts to feed the chicks - #4 up first
12:38 33 flies off leaving Maya feeding the chicks - #4 in front :-D
12:43 # 4 doing very well here
12:44 #4 turns away and #3 is now being fed
12:46 more for #3
#1 and #2 move forward and join #3 to be fed
older chicks being fed as #3 now turns away
12:57 The other older chick is now fed as the other one turns
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All chicks have taken their turn to be fed and had as much fish as they wanted.
16:30 #4 is really catching up in size to its siblings
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17:14 Bottom's up!
Nice to see them up and moving about for anytime I have looked in this afternoon they have been resting
#4 trying out a little nidifying :-D
and a few minutes later - back to normal :-D